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Copyright law encourages creation and promotes the “process of creating” because of the remuneration and reward of that work. For this reason authors should take the greatest possible care in protecting their artwork.

The right arises at the time of work creation. Italian Civil Code identifies it as “a special expression of intellectual work”.Author can exploit his own work as he wants, according with the constitutional principle of the free private economic initiative.Copyright gives author exclusive rights to prevent third parties from economic exploitation of his work. In particular, law gives these exclusives rights:

The economic exploitation of the work covered by copyright can occur in any ways, the economic rights last up to 70 years after author’s death.Economic rights can be transferred and, in some cases, even used as compensation of exploitation by third parties.Economic exploitation rights are grouped in three categories:

performing and distribution rights;

public communication rights;

interpretation and elaboration rights.

All of these rights are independent and the exercise of one of them doesn’t exclude the exercise of the other.